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Literary Culture in Taiwan
Martial Law to Market Law
Language: English
Release Date: October 6, 2004
With monumental changes in the last two decades, Taiwan is making itself anew. The process requires remapping not only the country's recent political past, but also its literary past. Taiwanese literature is now compelled to negotiate a path between residual high culture aspirations and the emergent...
Silencing the Bomb
One Scientist's Quest to Halt Nuclear Testing
Language: English
Release Date: December 12, 2017
In December 2016, the Bulletin of Atomic Scientists moved their iconic “Doomsday Clock” thirty seconds forward to two and a half minutes to midnight, the latest it has been set since 1952, the year of the first United States hydrogen bomb test. But a group of scientists—geologists, engineers,...
Found Life
Poems, Stories, Comics, a Play, and an Interview
Language: English
Release Date: November 28, 2017
One of the first Russian writers to make a name for herself on the Internet, Linor Goralik writes conversational short works that conjure the absurd in all its forms, reflecting post-Soviet life and daily universals. Her mastery of the minimal, including a wide range of experiments in different forms...
Japan and the Culture of the Four Seasons
Nature, Literature, and the Arts
Language: English
Release Date: March 20, 2012
Elegant representations of nature and the four seasons populate a wide range of Japanese genres and media—from poetry and screen painting to tea ceremonies, flower arrangements, and annual observances. In Japan and the Culture of the Four Seasons, Haruo Shirane shows how, when, and why this practice...
Thin Places
A Pilgrimage Home
Language: English
Release Date: November 28, 2008
Thin Places is an eloquent meditation on what it means to move between cultures and how one might finally come home, a particular paradox in a culture that lacks deep ties to the natural world. During the 1990s, Ann Armbrecht, an American anthropologist, made several trips to northeastern Nepal to...
Hawk of the Mind
Collected Poems
Language: English
Release Date: March 27, 2018
Yang Mu is a towering figure in modern Chinese poetry. His poetic voice is subtle and lyrical, and his work is rich with precise images and crystalline thoughts invoking temporality and remembrance. A bold innovator and superb craftsman, he elegantly combines cosmopolitan experimentation with poetic...
Ghalib
Selected Poems and Letters
Language: English
Release Date: March 28, 2017
This selection of poetry and prose by Ghalib provides an accessible and wide-ranging introduction to the preeminent Urdu poet of the nineteenth century. Ghalib's poems, especially his ghazals, remain beloved throughout South Asia for their arresting intelligence and lively wit. His letters—informal,...
by Huang Huang Chun-ming
Language: English
Release Date: April 18, 2001
Language: English
Release Date: April 18, 2001
From the preeminent writer of Taiwanese nativist fiction and the leading translator of Chinese literature come these poignant accounts of everyday life in rural and small-town Taiwan. Huang is frequently cited as one of the most original and gifted storytellers in the Chinese language, and these selections...
by Chŏnghŭi O
Language: English
Release Date: July 3, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: July 3, 2012
O Chonghui crafts historically-rooted yet timeless tales imagining core human experiences from a female point of view. Since her debut in 1968, she has formed a powerful challenge to the patriarchal literary establishment in Korea, and her work has invited rich comparisons with the achievements of...
The AIDS Conspiracy
Science Fights Back
Language: English
Release Date: March 20, 2012
Since the early days of the AIDS epidemic, many bizarre and dangerous hypotheses have been advanced to explain the origins of the disease. In this compelling book, Nicoli Nattrass explores the social and political factors prolonging the erroneous belief that the American government manufactured the...
Human Trafficking Around the World
Hidden in Plain Sight
Language: English
Release Date: June 4, 2013
This unprecedented study of sex trafficking, forced labor, organ trafficking, and sex tourism across twenty-four nations highlights the experiences of the victims, perpetrators, and anti-traffickers involved in this brutal trade. Combining statistical data with intimate accounts and interviews, journalist...
They Wished They Were Honest
The Knapp Commission and New York City Police Corruption
Language: English
Release Date: June 5, 2012
In fifty years of prosecuting and defending criminal cases in New York City and elsewhere,Michael F. Armstrong has often dealt with cops. For a single two-year span, as chief counsel to the Knapp Commission, he was charged with investigating them. Based on Armstrong's vivid recollections of this watershed...
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Language: English
Release Date: December 10, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: December 10, 2013
Chosen by the American Society of Magazine Editors, the stories in this anthology include National Magazine Award–winning works of public interest, reporting, feature writing, and fiction. This year's selections include Pamela Colloff (Texas Monthly) on the agonizing, decades-long struggle by a...
After Uniqueness
A History of Film and Video Art in Circulation
Language: English
Release Date: March 21, 2017
Images have never been as freely circulated as they are today. They have also never been so tightly controlled. As with the birth of photography, digital reproduction has created new possibilities for the duplication and consumption of images, offering greater dissemination and access. But digital...